Flying Fish Phelps led the US team won the men’s 4×100-meter freestyle relay gold medal on August 8th, 2016 and it is the 19th Olympic gold medal in his career. However, the media doesn’t focus on him and more attention paid to a bunch of strange purple marks on his right shoulder. Thus the Phelps cupping becomes a hot words in the social media quickly.
Cupping is a Chinese practice of sucking the skin away from the underlying muscles for a short period of time in order to stimulate blood flow. Traditionally, cupping involves wiping the skin with something flammable like alcohol, and then lighting a match in an inverted small cup to build up heat. The match goes out, and the cup is placed over the skin, where the heat builds up pressure and starts pulling the skin away. Over several minutes, the blood vessels start to expand and tiny capillaries near the surface break, which causes the redness.
Since imitation effect brought about Phelps cupping, many foreigners are eager to show their interest. Many US media also specifically consulted with the medical experts and check research data to provide readers with related cupping experience plan.
“Do not be surprised if you find your friends and neighbors who suddenly covered with purple dots on their back!” says USA Today, Cupping has become popular nowadays. Phelps explained that he try this fresh therapy to ease muscle soreness. But he do not know well about the Chinese therapy well, the body cannot touch water and wind after cupping, else it will affect the therapy effects.
For the athletes, there is no scientific research shows that cupping can improve performance. Many top swimmers including Michael Phelps teammate Nathan Adrian (Chinese-American) says, cupping is an alternative method of massage therapy.
There are many researchers have attempted to study the role of cupping with a more rigorous scientific method, but often there are omissions in the systematic design, the result was not reliable for medical guidance. Most reports merely show that cupping is no harm, but the real benefits which nobody speaks clear.
As long as cupping has no harm, lots of athletes would like to have a try. Last year, the “World Swim” magazine found that some institutions have begun to use cupping therapy, American football players Demarcus Ware has even begun to try cupping, and American swimmer was known as the female version of Phillips Missy Franklin, began to try cupping early in the college team. Her coach said, cupping is just like the ice bath, a lot of people say it is useless with ice bath, but if you think it helps, it will profoundly affect your performance.
Gymnasts Nadu told USA Today that he bought a set of Cupping Appliance from Amazon and brought to Rio, “This is a big secret that my body stays healthy in this year and this is what I spend most of the value of the money.
Will Phelps cupping be the next Chinese artifact led the therapy trend?
According to cupping wiki, cupping is also named as suction tube therapy and use cup or jar as tools to drain the air inside by the heat to generate negative pressure, so the cups suck in the skin, resulting in congestion phenomena. Ancient physicians use cupping to suck blood and drainage in the treatment of sore abscess. Due to the continuous improvement of methods to make cupping therapy has a new development, further expand the range of treatment and become one of the acupuncture therapies.
Cupping is a very easy therapy that mostly people could apply on the body, but ordinary people should try Phelps cupping or not? Huffington Post says; if you have chronic headache and muscle pain that traditional therapies do not work, try cupping! After all, in addition to the athletes, the US actress Jennifer Aniston and Gwyneth Paltrow also like cupping, maybe this big and round hickey thing can lead the next wave of fashion trends.
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